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Colbert's Cartoon Shows Reagan in Hell, Adelson as Jabba the Hutt
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May 20th, 2019 1:17 AM
Looking for leverage to get the Democrats to fund a flame-shooting border wall, President Trump promises to refuse to resupply the International Space Station until Democrats agree to the funding in the May 19 episode of Showtime’s Our Cartoon President. Pitting suffering astronauts against the president, media reports cause Trump to begin to lose support. He even loses support from loyal Trump…
Hypocrite Krugman: ‘Awful’ McCain Now ‘Hero’, GOP 'Authoritarian'
November 13th, 2018 12:24 PM
Paul Krugman embarrassed himself on several fronts in his Tuesday New York Times column, jumping on the latest liberal outrage bandwagon over the awarding of a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Miriam Adelson. But Krugman truly stepped in his own hypocrisy when he tried to elevate a late Republican solely to bash Trump: "A genuine hero like John McCain, who was critical of Trump, gets dismissed as…
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Friedman Slams 'Diplomatic Pornography' of Embassy Move to Jerusalem
May 21st, 2018 2:08 PM
On his Sunday show on CNN, as Fareed Zakaria presided over a segment discussing the week's news on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, only the left and the far left were included as liberal New York Times columnist Tom Friedman slammed President Donald Trump's Israel policy as "diplomatic pornography," and Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi claimed that all of Jerusalem is "occupied" and tried to…
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MSNBC Opens Inauguration....By Touting Obama; ‘Elevated the Office'
January 20th, 2017 11:10 AM
Roughly five minutes into MSNBC’s Inauguration coverage, host Brian Williams switched gears from discussing Donald Trump becoming President to mythologizing President Obama for having “elevated the office...improved by touching the office and shown great respect for the office he's the custodian of.”
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MSNBC's Matthews More Upset at GOP Than Iranians for Capturing Sailors
January 13th, 2016 8:32 PM
MSNBC host Chris Matthews apparently is incensed at Republican outrage over the Islamic Republic of Iran's capture of 10 U.S. Navy sailors. In his mind, they need to chill out. They sounded as though we'd never get our boys (and girl) back, he harumphed.
NYT Still Fretting Over GOP Donor Adelson's Big Bet on Las Vegas Paper
January 4th, 2016 11:16 AM
Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson purchased the Las Vegas Review Journal newspaper last month, and the New York Times is obsessed. The paper put a conspiratorial Sunday front-page spotlight on Adelson (who is, not coincidentally, a major Republican donor) and his legal clashes with a Nevada judge: “Mogul’s Purchase of Las Vegas Newspaper Is Seen as Power Play." Also suspect: A free paper Adelson…
NYT’s Krugman: Rich Right-Wingers 'Horrible People,' Says 'Science'
January 2nd, 2016 9:28 AM
The rich are "horrible people" -- at least those who lean to the right -- declares economist turned pompous New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in Friday’s “Privilege, Pathology and Power.” The text box: “Can we survive rule by self-centered billionaires?” (Liberal billionaire activist George Soros had no comment.) Krugman channeled opportunistic moralism, citing “science” to confirm his…
New York Times Panics at Republican Buying the Las Vegas Paper
December 30th, 2015 7:39 AM
The New York Times is transparently panicking about Republican-backing billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s secretive purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. In a Monday article by Barry Meier and Sydney Ember, they strongly imply that it’s okay when billionaires buy newspapers, as long as they don’t tilt the political playing field to the right.
Adelson has used his Israeli media holdings as a "…
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Colbert Skewers Adelson as ‘Kuato’; Meyers Jokes GOPers Support ISIS
December 17th, 2015 3:02 AM
On Wednesday, the late-night comedy show hosts gave their thoughts on the previous evening’s Republican debate and, naturally, the jokes skewed to the left. Most prominent, Late Show host Stephen Colbert trashed conservative donor Sheldon Adelson as a “part-time Kuato” (a reference to the alien in the movie Total Recall) and Late Night host Seth Meyers joked that each of the nine major candidates…
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FLASHBACK: Matthews Calls Pro-Israel Group a 'Whore Bar'
November 11th, 2014 12:05 AM
During his MSNBC program on Monday night, Chris Matthews referred to a weekend gathering of the Israeli American Council (IAC) that is backed by Las Vegas casino owner and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson as his own “whore bar” where Republican figures “say anything for that guy, because he’s a hawk, to get his money.”
Matthews made the disparaging comments during a discussion with The…
Jon Stewart Calls Out Hypocritical Harry Reid for Defending Wealthy Ba
May 14th, 2014 11:58 PM
The old saying goes that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder," but during Tuesday night's edition of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, the same principle was applied to hypocrisy.
Jon Stewart charged that Senate majority leader Harry Reid has criticized Charles and David Koch more than 140 times this year but said during an interview that people shouldn't “pick on” Sheldon Adelson, a…
Former NYT Reporter on GOP Donor Meeting: 'It’s Hard to Imagine a Po
March 31st, 2014 6:18 PM
New York Times political correspondent turned left-wing editorial writer David Firestone unleashed a fiery attack on a GOP donor in an inflammatory nytimes.com post Monday afternoon: "The Line to Kiss Sheldon Adelson's Boots."
The very thought of Republican politicians speaking at a Las Vegas meeting of an Adelson-backed lobbying group made Firestone want to retch:
Wealthy Conservatives Are 'Evil People' Taking Over America, Warns Eas
November 6th, 2012 7:40 AM
Ever notice how liberals never seem to have a problem with genuine evil and instead use the word to describe those who don't share their rarefied opinions?
Libtalker Bill Press provided an example of this on his radio show yesterday, venting about the Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Sheldon Adelson and Foster Friess for their alleged nefarious plans to seize control of the country through its…
Roseanne Barr: 'You'd Think Israel Had Oil the Way Our "Leaders" Keep
September 6th, 2012 10:07 AM
"Jeez, you'd think Israel had oil the way our 'leaders' keep their our [sic] lips on its ass."
So poorly wrote comedian Roseanne Barr in a piece published by the Huffington Post Thursday entitled "I Approve This Message":